</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Liquid Karma:
<a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golfonline/news/2002/08/31/masters_burk_ap/" target="_blank">NEW YORK (AP) -- Now that the Masters has eliminated its television sponsors, the leader of a national women's group said Saturday she will urge CBS Sports to drop coverage of golf's most-watched tournament until Augusta National has a female member.
Martha Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations, said she will not give up the fight until the Masters fades away as a major championship or until the club admits a woman.
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Jeebus facking Christ. Somebody get this ***** a reality check.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">First of all, I have followed this and I've wanted to say "I don't care" because to me golf is abominable to play (I have been there, too -- I played a little golf in college), and even more atrocious to watch. I want to say I don't give a crap what Hootie Johnson does with his precious golf club.
But then there's Martha Burk. Now, if one considered some of my sociopolitical beliefs about my gender (1. I firmly believe women should be paid equally as a man for equal work; 2. I firmly believe the government or any other social institutions do not have the right to tell a woman what to do with her body; and finally, 3. I firmly believe if a woman says "no", she f'n *means* it) would automatically make me company with Burk.
However, the way I view this issue, Burk comes off more like she has a personal vendetta against Augusta rather than trying to be the beacon for feminism. She is just as embarassing in her pigheadedness as Hootie Johnson is in his.
However, Johnson *is* in the right on this issue because Augusta National is not a public entity, but a private one, therefore the powers that be at Augusta continue to have the right to exclude women as they see fit -- however backwards and repugnant that view may be. OTOH, if Augusta was a state-run or a municipal-run entity, then Burk would really have something to gripe about. All Martha Burk is doing with her continued campaign against Augusta is making an a-- of herself and, in my view, cheapening what sociopolitical gains women have gained over time.
--soonerterp.
<small>[ September 03, 2002, 12:53 PM: Message edited by: soonerterp ]</small>
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